MIKE HAWTHORN - GOLDEN BOY!SOFTBACK EDITION
NOW AVAILABLE - the Softback version of our best seller Mike Hawthorn - Golden Boy! In 11 Chapters and containing much of the original book plus updates. Please use THIS LINK to order!

Brian Martin worked at Jaguar from 1949 just as the XK 120 was
coming on stream, and left in 1978, the era of the XJ-S and Series
2 XJ saloon. There are many Jaguar books about the technicalities
of the cars themselves, and some biographies of important Jaguar
people, but it is extremely rare to read the experiences and
opinions of a shop-floor worker.

So Brian's vivid and often amusing account of life at Jaguar is unique, with all sorts of
fascinating insights on how the cars were built (both production models and prototypes) and how the company operated from an assembly line worker's perspective - though he then progressed through the company to become a development engineer before
entering junior management.

A Jaguar enthusiast as well, Brian built a splendid XK-SS replica
and for a time was chairman of the (now-defunct but much
respected) Jaguar Car Club. The chapter headings give a good
indication of what's in store for the reader:-

Chapter 1: Why Jaguar?

Chapter 2: 1949 I join Jaguar, the NUVB, and Labour

Chapter 3: 1949–1950 The XK120, assembly line chaos, and Gladys and Dorothy

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